OTET Syllabus 2023 and Exam Pattern, OTET Paper 1 and 2

Unit 1- Understanding Child Development during Childhood 
(focus on children at the primary level)

• Concepts, principles and Stages of child development
• Characteristics of Physical, cognitive, social, emotional and 
  moral development in Childhood
• Influence of Heredity and Environment in Understanding the Child

Unit 2- Understanding Learning Process and Learners

• Learning – concept, nature and individual differences in learning
• Understanding how a child learns – learning through observation, imitation
• The understanding low child learns – various methods of learning
• Basic conditions of learning and promotion of learning through motivation,
   classroom learning environment and teacher behaviour
• Development of creative thinking

Unit 3- Concept of Inclusive Education and Understanding Children with
 Special needs

• Concept of inclusive education
• Addressing the needs of a diverse group of learning in the inclusive 
  classrooms (CWSN, girls, SC / ST)
• Addressing the talented, creative learning

Unit 4- Approaches to Teaching and Learning

• Teacher-centred, learner-centred and learning-centred approach
• A competency-based and activity-based approach
• TLM – its importance, use and preparation for classroom transaction
• Teaching competency to handle mono-grade and multi-grade situations

Unit 5- Assessment

• Continuous and comprehensive assessment
• Purpose of assessment
• Assessing scholastic and other scholastic areas
• Sharing of assessment outcomes and follow up

GROUP A :(PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali at the elementary level

• Aims and objectives of teaching Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali as 
  mother tongue
• Principles of language teaching
• Acquisition of four-fold language skills in Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / 
  Bengali viz., listening, speaking, reading and writingInterdependence of four 
  language skills
• Objectives and strategies for transacting integrated text for the beginners

Unit 2-Teaching, Reading and Writing Skills

• The technique of developing intensive and extensive reading skills
• Teaching – learning composition and creative writing
• A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning the language for 
  communicating ideas in written form
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom, language 
  difficulties and errors

GROUP B: (CONTENT)

Unit 3- Assessment of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali

• Assessment of language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, 
  listening, reading, writing – construction of different types of test items
• Remedial teaching

Unit 4- Language items

• Part of speech – Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjectives, Conjunction
• Formation of words – using prefix and suffix
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Phrases and idioms

Unit 5- Language Comprehension

• Reading two unseen passages – one passage from prose and one poem 
  with questions on comprehension, drama, inference, grammar and verbal 
  ability (prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
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GROUP – A : (PEDAGOGY)

 Unit 1- Learning English at the Elementary Level

• Importance of learning English
• Objectives of learning English (in terms of content and competence 
  specifications)

Unit 2- Language Learning

• Principles of language teaching
• Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom

Unit 3- Skills in learning English

• Four-fold basic skills of learning viz., listening, speaking, reading and 
  writing: interdependence of skills
• Techniques and activities for developing listening and speaking skills 
  (recitation, storytelling, dialogue)
• Development of reading skills: reading for comprehension, 
  techniques and strategies for teaching, reading (phonic, alphabet, 
  word, sentence and story)
• Development of writing skills – teaching composition

Unit 4- Assessment of English

• Assessing language comprehension and proficiency: listening, 
  speaking, reading, writing

GROUP – B : (CONTENT)

Unit 5- Comprehension

• Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) 
  with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

Unit 6- Language items

• Nouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Tense and Time, Preposition, Articles, Adjectives, 
  Prepositions, Punctuation

GROUP – A : (PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Mathematics Education in Schools

• Nature of Mathematics (exactness, systematic, patterns, preciseness)
• Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
• Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics

Unit 2- Methods and Approaches to Teaching – Learning Mathematics

• Methods: Inductive, deductive, analysis, synthesis, play-way
• Approaches: Constructivist and Activity-based

Unit 3- Assessment in Mathematics

• Assessment in Mathematics
• Formal and informal assessment
• Different types of test items
• Planning for remedial and enrichment programme in Mathematics

GROUP – B (CONTENT)

 Unit 4- Number System and Operation in Numbers

• Number system (natural, whole, rational, real)
• Fundamental operation on numbers
• Fractional numbers and decimals – operations in fractional numbers and decimals
• Factors and multiples – HCF and LCM
• Percentage and its application

Unit 5- Measurement

• Measurement of length, weight, capacity
• Measurement of area and perimeter of rectangle and square
• Measurement of time (concept of am, pm and time interval)

Unit 6- Shapes and spatial Relationship

• Basic geometrical concepts (point, line segment, ray, straight line, angles)
• The geometry of triangles, quadrilaterals and circles
• Symmetry
• Geometrical slides (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder cone)

Unit 7- Data Handling and Patterns

• Pictography, bar graph, histogram, pie chart
• Interpretation of these graphs
• Patterns in numbers and figures

GROUP – A : (PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Concept

• Concept and Significance
• Integration of Science and Social Science
• Aims and objectives of teaching and learning EVS

Unit 2- Methods and Approaches

• Basic principles of teaching EVS
• Methods: Survey, Practical Work, discussion, observation, project
• Approaches: Activity – based, theme-based

Unit 3- Evaluation in EVS

• Tools and techniques for evaluation learning in EVS
• Diagnostic assessment in EVS

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit 4- Governance

• Local – self, Government – State and Central
• Judiciary

Unit 5- Physical Features of Odisha and India

• Landscape
• Climate
• Natural resources
• Agriculture and industry

Unit 6- History of Freedom Struggle in India and Odisha

Unit 7- Health and Diseases

• Nutritional, elements, balanced diet
• Nutritional, deficiency and diseases
• Waste materials and disposal
• First – aid
• Air and water pollution

Unit 8- Internal Systems of the Human Body

• Respiratory, circulatory, digestive and excretory system – structure and parts of plant – structure and function

Unit 9- Matter, Force and Energy

• Matter and its properties
• Earth and sky, the effect of rotation and revolution of the earth
• Work and energy

Unit 1- Child Development (Focus on Upper Primary School Children)

• Features of Physical, Cognitive, Social, Emotional & Moral development
   during pre-adolescence and adolescence
• Effect of Heredity and Environment on development
• Needs and problems of adolescents
• Individual differences among learners

Unit 2- Learning

• Learning as meaning-making knowledge and construction
• How children learn – observation, initiation, trial, error, experience
• Learning as a social activity
• Rote learning and meaningful learning
• Factors affecting learning
• Strategies for promoting lessons
• Addressing learners from a diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged 
  and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties and impairment
• Addressing the talented, creative and specially-abled learners

Unit 3- Curriculum Teaching-Learning Approaches and Evaluation

• Teacher-centred, learner-centred and learning-centred approaches
• Principles of curriculum organization
• Teaching learning aids
• Continuous comprehensive assessment of learning, planning and designing 
  achievement tests, rating scale, checklist
• Test reliability and validity
• Date representation – mean, mode and median and standard deviation

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali at Upper Primary Level

• Aims and objectives of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali as a 
  first language
• Principles of teaching mother tongue
• Development of language skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening)

Unit 2- Teaching Language

• Intensive and Extensive reading skills at the upper primary level
• Teaching of non – detailed and detailed texts (prose, poetry)
• The teaching of composition and creative writing
• Teaching of grammar
• Challenges of teaching Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali in multi – lingual 
  context

Unit 3- Assessment of Language

• Assessment of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali language – listening, 
  speaking, reading and writing
• Planning and designing achievement tests and other tools for assessment

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit 4- Elements of Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali Language

• Comprehension of two unseen passages (one from prose/drama and the other 
  from the poem) with test items on comprehension, vocabulary and grammar.

Unit 5- Language Items

• Parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjectives, conjunction)
• Formation of words (pre-fix and suffix)
• Vocabulary (spelling and meaning of synonyms and antonyms)
• Phrases and idioms

Unit 6- Contribution of famous literates for development of Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / 
Bengali language

• Odia – Fakir Mohan Senapati, Gangadhar Meher, Radhanath Ray, Surendra Mohanty, 
  Gopinath Mohanty
• Urdu – Altaf Hussain Hali, Niaz Fatepuri, Ali Sardar Jafri, Amir Khusroo, Majrooh 
  Sultanpuri
• Hindi – Bharatendu Harischandra, Mahavir Prasad Dwivedy, Prem Chand, 
  Jayashankar Prasad, Suryakanta Tripathy Nirala
• Bengali – Rabindra Nath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chhatopadhya, Tarasankar 
  Bandopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay
• Telugu – Srinanthadu, Gurajuda Appa Rao, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, 
  Arudra, C. Narayan Reddy

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Learning English at Upper Primary Level

• Importance of learning English
• The objective of learning English

Unit 2- Development of English Language Skills

• Basic skills of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the 
  interdependence of skills
• The teaching of prose, poetry and composition
• The teaching of creative writing
• Principles of language teaching
• Challenges of teaching English as a second language at the upper primary level

Unit 3- Assessment of learning the English Language

• Assessment of comprehension and language skills (listening, speaking, reading 
  and writing)

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit 4- Comprehension

• Two unseen passages (one from prose/drama and another from poem) with 
  questions on comprehension, grammar)

Unit 5- Language Items

• Parts of speech, tense, voice change and change of narration, use of an article, 
  use of punctuation mark
• Vocabulary – meaning and spelling

 GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage

• Nature of Mathematics – logical, systematic, 
  abstractions, pattern, mathematical language
• Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
• Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics

Unit 2- Methods and Approaches to Teaching – 
Learning Mathematics

• Methods: induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis
• Approaches: Constructivist and activity-based

Unit 3- Evaluation in Mathematics

• Formal and informal evaluation
• Error analysis
• Remedial and enrichment programmes

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit 4- Number System

• Number System (focus on real and rational numbers)
• Properties in different number systems

Unit 5- Algebra

• Basic concepts: terms, coefficient, powers
• Algebraic equations and their applications (with one variable)
• Polynomials – operations in polynomials
• Laws of indices
• Identities

Unit 6- Commercial Arithmetic

• Percentage and its application (profit and loss, simple 
  and compound, interest, banking, rebate)
• Ratio and proportion
• Variation and its application
• Square, square root, cube, cube root of natural numbers

Unit 7- Shapes and Spatial Relationship

• Triangles and Quadrilaterals
• Angles, complementary and supplementary angles, 
  opposite angles, exterior angles of the triangle
• Angle sum property
• Parallel lines and properties relating to parallel lines
• Congruency and similarities
• Menstruations (area and circumference of circle,
   higher-order problems relating to area of square, 
  triangle, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, 
  Pythagorean theorem)

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit – 1 : – Nature of Science

• Aims and objectives of teaching-learning science at the upper primary stage

Unit – 2 : – Methods and Approaches

• Methods: Observation, Experimentation, Discovery, Project and Problem – solving
• Approaches: Integrated approach, constructivists approach

Unit – 3 : – Evaluation in Science

• Tools and techniques for assessing learning in Science

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit – 4 : – Physical Science

• Metal, non – metal and metalloid
• Elements and compounds
• Symbol, valence and chemical equation
• Acid, base and salt
• The physical and chemical changes in matters
• Force, motion, friction, and pressure in solid, liquid and gases
• Electricity and current chemical effects of electric current
• Refraction and reflection of light
• Solar system and planets

Unit – 5 : – Life Science

• Biological adaptation among living beings
• Respiration and transpiration
• Soil and forest resource
• Cell structure and function of cell organelle
• Micro-organisms
• Adolescence in human beings

GROUP A (PEDAGOGY)

Unit 1- Aims and Objectives of Teaching Social Studies

• Importance of teaching-learning Social Sciences at the upper primary stage
• Aims and objectives of teaching-learning Social Sciences
• Specific objectives of teaching-learning Social Science

Unit 2- Methods and Approaches

• Methods: Survey, fieldwork/trips, project, group work
• Approaches: Activity – based, theme-based

Unit 3- Evaluation in Social Science

• Tools and technique for assessment of learning in Social Science
• Diagnostic assessment and remedial teaching

GROUP B (CONTENT)

Unit 4- History and Political Science

• Methods of historical studies, social, economic and political conditions of the
• sultanate, Moghul and British period
• Slave, Khiligi, Tughlaq, Lodi Dynasty
• East India Company, British Crown, Impact of British rules, Ancient period,
• Kharabela, Ashoka
• Soma, Garganga, Surya, fall of Odisha, Odisha under Moghuls
• The nationalist movement in India
• Development of Nationalism and Europe

Unit 5- Political Science

• Indian Constitution
• Human Rights
• Governance at the Central, State and Local level
• Political Parties and pressure groups

Unit 6- Geography

• Odisha Geography – physical features, climate, agriculture and industry
• Natural resources (land, water, forest and wild animals, minerals)
• Atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere
• Earth – crust, internal structure, landscape (hills and mountains, plateau,
• plains, rivers)
• Temperature zones of the earth